Karl Rove: President Obama arguing with himself

President Barack Obama’s commencement speech at West Point Academy on Wednesday sounded like an “argument with himself,” according to political commentator Karl Rove.

“Over three years ago, he said if Syrians did the following things it was a red line for the United States and Assad must go,” Rove said during FOX’s “Happening Now.” “Three years later, Assad is still there after they have violated the present’s red line, now he says vaguely, ‘We’ll take some new action in Syria.”

“I will work with Congress to ramp up support for those in the Syrian opposition who offer the best alternative to terrorists and a brutal dictator,” the president said to West Point graduates, according to a transcript obtained by POLITICO. “And we will continue to coordinate with our friends and allies in Europe and the Arab World – to push for a political resolution of this crisis, and make sure that those countries, and not just the United States, are contributing their fair share of support to the Syrian people.”

But even with this announcement, Rove offered his own summation of the commencement speech as “nothing new.”

“The president, today, engaged in straw men and tossed them out there every few moments,” Rove said.